38 10 1856 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/51c1c1039b5384a73044e0e37e43adfc.jpeg a32cfb57727ccbdc4126b59daf43e739 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Delia Businesses, Delia, Kansas Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1927 Delia Clothing Store Advertisement, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Another Week of the Big Clearance Sale On account of rain and muddy roads, many people were unable to attend the sale. We have decided to run the sale another week ending Saturday, April 23rd. Clothing and furnishings for men and boys at bargain prices. Come to this sale. Buy now and save money. Delia Clothing Store John F. Misum, Prop. Delia, Kansas Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1927 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. 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Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seth Cormack's Balloon, 1909, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource From the March 5, 1909, Rossville Reporter: Mr. [Seth] Cormack, the balloonist, made a most successfully ascension with his balloon last Saturday evening. The feat was viewed by many and all said it was one of the best they had ever seen. In the early part of the afternoon an attempt was made to fill the balloon with gas but without success owing to the wind. It was just about sundown after most of the crowd had gone home that another effort was made and shortly after the big bag sailed away to the clouds with Cormack hanging to the parachute. It reached a height of nearly 2,000 feet before he cut the rope and dropped with the parachute and alighted gently in Conley's corn field. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 5, 1909 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource photograph Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0277 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/6d0bbcf0f0bd6610beaa950c761bcaf6.jpeg 82741875f809bc627a7812f72f1ea8a6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notable Fires, Rossville, Kansas Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1917 Fire Destroys Old Landmarks, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Number 7 Old Landmarks Burned Hartzell Drug Store, Feed Store, Shoe Stop and a Harness Shop Gutted By Flames. Aye’s Stock Carried to Safety. An early afternoon fire Monday burned the D. Hartzell drug store building and contents, E.D. Hartzell’s poultry and feed store the building occupied by Hower’s shoe shop and the building occupied by Wm. Aye’s harness shop. Practically all the Aye stock was saved. Mr. Hower saved all his tools and his bed. The entire contents of the drug store and feed store was burned. The fire was discovered about 12:45 on the roof of the building occupied by the shoe shop, and is supposed to have started from a defective flue or burning soot igniting the roof. Although the engine and hose were promptly on the job, the whole block of wooden buildings was burning fiercely before a stream could be turned on the flames. The engine wouldn’t work—carburetor out of whack, dome had frozen and cracked and pressure therefor cut down. After it was started and run twenty minutes it was found no water was circulating through the cylinders, and possibly a few more minor defects, if we had thought to catalog them all. In the meantime the Aye stock was carried to safety. Only a light breeze was blowing from due south, and the firemen stationed themselves in its path on Dr. Pratt’s office and held it in check and confined to the wooden buildings. Men on the buildings farther north watched the roofs for incipient blazes. By 3 o’clock the buildings were burned to the foundations. An effort was made and succeeded in keeping the fire out of the drug store cellar where some potatoes were stored. The floor is still over the cellar. The buildings burned were landmarks of Rossville’s infancy. The two rooms owned by D. Hartzell were built in the early eighties; the shoe shop and harness building owned by the Oldfield estate were nearly as old. As if in defiance of all fires, the charred joists of the south partition of the drug store remained standing after the balance of the building was gone, as once before the building was saved and the Fritz building burned instead. The only insurance carried was by Mr. Aye, and most of his stock was saved. E.D. Hartzell’s loss on stock was $300 or $400 and the buildings and drug stock loss was about $2500. Mr. Aye had rented and housed his stock in the fireproof Howerton building before the fire had finished burning his old stand. The loss of these buildings leaves a big gap on the west side of Main street, but some of the most desirable building sites in the business part of town. In giving thanks to the many generous citizens who helped in saving property and subduing the flames, let us not forget to thank the Lord the wind was not in the west. [February 15, 1917] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 15, 1917 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper article Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0561 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/86223b78e0f36bef4e1335e70de89035.jpeg 46791427b201dffaa54533e80a6ccf73 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/55af765e680c390ce89cc71d49c9b71d.jpg e2a901f61d6b80f5398abda726c14af9 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/579f5e8c255aa900b0b713d37dc6b12d.jpg 04a737b4961cbceda1a071802654abfc http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/fc8fd924bb6a7d0a73280902a75d787c.jpg 019b058a8b205e2b7ffe4a45ff59282f http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/34e99516f44f8785038a032f332d0ba7.jpg 69efa625e37a06188764fa193bfbac1c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Notable Fires, Rossville, Kansas Photo A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1989 Bennett House Fire, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource The Kenneth and Norma Bennett residence at 304 Main, Rossville, Kansas, was destroyed by fire the evening of Friday, December 15, 1989. Cause of the fire is unknown, but broke out in the walls about 8:30. Firefighters were on the scene until 8:00 Saturday morning. The Bennetts and their daughter, Yvonne, escaped unharmed. According to Fire Chief Robert Sieh, all attempts to save the house and its contents were hampered by temperatures of 15 degrees or more below zero. Article transcription: FIRE HAD BEEN RAGING in the walls of the Kenny and Norma Bennett home on Rossville's North Main street before Mrs. Bennett called the fire department about 9 p.m. Friday, December 15. Cause of the fire had not been determined at press time, but the house and contents of the home are considered a total loss. Fire Chief Bob Sieh called St. Marys for fire personnel to assist in fighting the fire, as well as a paramedic unit. Firefighters were at the scene until about 3 a.m. Saturday. One of the firemen said that it look two people to remove the firemen's gloves and the snaps on their fire uniforms also froze. There were no injuries in this fire, which was finally considered "out" at 5:30 a.m. Ice buildup on the second floor and in the basement make the structure unsafe to enter at this time. People arc cautioned, once again, to be very careful of portable heaters, Christmas lights and other items which could cause fires at this time of year. Photo by Brandon Magette Page 5 St Marys Star December 19, 1989 ICE FORMED as quickly as the water came from the hoses at the terrible fire in Rossville Friday, December 16. Alan McKenzie and Assistant Fire Chief Steve Guyle man the hose. The tree took on the appearance of a winter wonderland as the water hit it and froze solid. Photo by Brandon Magette Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kenneth Bennett, Rossville, Kansas St. Marys Star, St. Marys, Kansas (RCL0448) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library, Rossville, Kansas used with permission Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 19, 1989 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All rights reserved Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource original photographs newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0368 RCL0369 RCL0370 RCL0371 RCL0448 Subject The topic of the resource Fire http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/1e23b6c891f3735760765ceeb2ca4632.jpeg 0916efaaf116e7ef6205a428ebed241c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Agricultural History Subject The topic of the resource Farming/Ranching Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Community Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rossville Centennial Booklet, 1971 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain due to copyright expiration. Original narrative content by RCL is available for use by public. Description An account of the resource Rossville is fortunately situated in many ways—we are near a large city, Topeka, but far enough away to retain our own identity; we can be considered a bedroom community to Topeka since so many residents commute to work to the larger city; we are just north of the Kansas River and enjoy the fertile “Kaw River Valley,” which has benefited agriculture in our community since its very beginnings. From the early days, Rossville Township was blessed with fertile creek and river-bottom land, combined with the upland, which consisted of bluestem grass. The early settlers broke and cleared the bottom lands and part of the upland prairie. The settlers of the 1860-70s began farming and found the soil fertile and productive. However, the task of clearing the timberland and breaking prairie sod must have seemed insurmountable. Corn and wheat, the main crops, and cattle, hogs and other livestock-raising, became the basic agriculture of Rossville township. Many of these early farmers came to Kansas seeking land. They traveled by ox cart and wagon before the railroad went through, following the Oregon and other trails. Settlers bought land from the Santa Fe Railroad or from members of the Citizen Potawatomi Band, who were selling their allotment land. The first mention of early agriculture in Rossville comes from Dr. Gabbey’s account, written in 1886: “The Pottawatomi as a tribe never took kindly to agriculture, four or five acres in corn was a large field. Their fields were usually cleared up from the edge of the timber along the streams, as the Indian had little use for the Prairie kind.” One account gives the cost of prairie in the early days from $2.50 to $4.00 per acre. Lumber was worth from $25.00 to $39.00 dollars per thousand feet. Oxen cost $100.00 a yoke, mules from $100.00 to $200.00, horses $75.00 to $150.00, sheep $2.00 a head and chickens 25¢ each. Masons and carpenters received $2.00 to $3.00 per day in wages. Wheat was worth $1.50 per bushel and flour $4.50 per hundred pounds. From newspapers of 1877: “New corn brought in for shipment is getting 18¢ to 20¢ and corn huskers have been in demand at $1.00 per day and board; 2.5¢ per bushel thrown on the ground or 3.5¢ in the crib.” “Mr. Lambert James, a farmer living a few miles west of town has this season manufactured 1,500 gallon of sorghum molasses, which he readily disposed of at 50¢ per gallon.” But challenges persisted for early settlers. Although this was an extremely desirable area for agriculture and the raising of livestock, it was not possible for the early settlers to procure manufactured goods from the East without paying an extremely high freight bill. It was also impossible to ship their grain and produce economically. River freight was tried but the Kaw River often times did not have enough water to make shipping dependable so the answer to this problem was the railroad. Rossville’s answer came May 18, 1866, when the first train passed through the town. Corn was the main crop and early editors gave much space extolling its excellence. Corn cribs were numerous along the south side of the railroad tracks and on the east side of north Main. A water powered grist mill was located on Cross Creek north of town. Mulvane Bros. built a steam powered mill south of the railroad tracks. One of the earliest farmers was Henry Ford, who acquired 80 acres southwest of Rossville in 1864. His wife was the former Mary Nadeau, who came to Rossville from Indiana in 1862. Henry Ford came to Kansas in 1863 and was a stage coach driver for the Overland Stage Company between Topeka and Manhattan. He met his wife at “Buttermilk Station” where she worked for her brother, Big Alex Nadeau. While working to clear their land of timber and build a log house, they lived in one room of a three room house, west of Cross Creek, north of the old Oregon and California trails. The other two rooms were occupied by Dr. and Mrs. R.S. Gabbey and Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Higginbotham. After the Fords moved into their log cabin, Mrs. Ford often rode horseback nine miles with her baby to the mission in St. Marys. The first flowers she had to plant by the cabin were given to her by the nuns at the Mission. Another early farmer, John DeGraff settled south of Rossville in 1865. He and his wife, the former Frances Navarre, lived in a small dugout until their house was built. The following is a list of early farmers: Name | Year to Rossville | Origin Archibald Abbott 1870 Kingston, Canada West Joseph Andrews Westmoreland County, Pa. W. Thomas Andrews 1879 McKay, Ohio Joseph Beseau 1875 Monroe County, Michigan John A. Bond 1872 Tyler County, W. Virginia William Bond 1873 Tyler County, W. Virginia John DeGraff 1865 James DeVinney 1880 Ross County, Ohio Benjamin Franklin 1869 Ross County, Ohio John Fritz 1877 Somerset County, Pa. Martin Hass 1877 Richland County, Ohio Henry Kassabaum 1877 Brookmell, Prussia T.J. Kiernan 1868 Elzey E. Kinsey 1877 Ohio Henry Lipp 1868 South Germany Isaac McCollough 1873 Holmes County, Ohio R. McCollough 1878 Holmes County, Ohio Michael O’halaron 1880 Samuel Oldfield 1878 Derbyshire, England S.J. Oliver 1876 Edward Partelow 1868 Newport, Kentucky Thomas L. Ross 1882 Cincinnati, Ohio M.M. Standley 1874 Carroll County, Indiana Bennett Swearingen 1868 Meigs County, Ohio Isaac B. Trostel 1877 Perry County, Pa. Frank Van Vleck 1878 William Wax 1878 Juniata County, Pa. Daniel Wilt 1876 York County, Pa. Henry York 1869 Zurich, Switzerland Peter H. Zickefoose 1874 Highland County, W. Virginia Samuel Beals 1867 E.S. Doud 1869 W.L. James Wm. Kirkpatrick 1871 Frank L. Sanders John Heslet Noel Graves W.W. Janes J.K. Conley 1870 Yates County, New York Startup, Ab Thomas Attebury 1877 George Hejtmanek 1880 Wisowitz, Moravia, Austria D. Hartzell 1872 Francis E. Williams 1876 New York Captain John Gutshall Col. A.S. Stanley 1880 Meigs Co., Ohio Martin Nason 1872 Jos. Van Vleck 1878 M.L. Cless 1876 B.W. Higginbotham 1861 Thomas Moss 1877 J.M. Parr Clay Co. Indiana J.A. Parr Clay Co. Indiana H.W. Lipp 1878 Illinois Samuel B. Zickefoose 1869 West Virginia Mrs. Jane Jackson 1875 Scotland Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Grasshopper Year, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource THE GRASSHOPPER YEAR - taken from Rossville Reporter July 2, 1936 Despite the lurid tales which are creeping into news reports of the hordes of grasshoppers sweeping like tornadoes over and through some of the plains states, there are plenty of men and women in this area who must be saying that the present generation hasn’t seen anything yet, that it doesn't know what a real grasshopper invasion is. Those men and women date back to 1874, soon after the prairie sod was first broken, when living under pioneer conditions was difficult at best. They or their parents, had pushed westward into Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and other states west of the Mississippi. They saw a phenomenon which must have rivaled that historic happening recorded in Exodus, when the "plague of locusts” completely denuded Egypt. It is interesting to recall what our elders told of the grasshopper invasion of 1874. Thousands of “Preemptors” were depending upon their first crop to see them through. The spring gave great promise and even in July a bountiful harvest was forecast. There was drought, there were hot winds, but there was enough of subsoil moisture to pull the crops through. Then, in the latter day of July, calamity dropped from the sky. Scanning a brazen horizon for signs of rain, farmers saw instead a strange cloud in the northwest moving like the wind, with the sun glinting from millions of points. It was the grasshopper horde. It swept on and on, but always dropping enough of the hoppers to denude every green thing. Corn fields melted before it leaving merely the woody stalks. Trees the settlers had nurtured on a barren plain were left stripped as for winter. Grass disappeared. The hoppers became green from their diet and they fed upon each other. Men, women and children stood helpless with slowly starving livestock about them. There were several railroads penetrating the plains even then and the East sought to help with shipments of supplies, but the hoppers, with a fine carelessness for life and limb, settled on the rails and supplied a greasy cushion which stopped trains. They got into wells and cisterns, they settled down in dying masses in the open springs. For days their movement dimmed the sun. Then the hoppers burrowed into the earth and laid their eggs. No more were they visible. Farmers, new to the area, believed the plague was finished and they returned with new courage to their plows. Then, the following spring, the new brood hatched and while the devastation was no greater, the resources of the settlers were lower, and 1875 just about closed the book for great areas. Then, strangely, the hoppers began another migration and the plague really was ended. The inherent courage of man repeopled the land, and they can afford to laugh at the present puny grasshopper army —- K. C. Star Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Possibly a reprint of article in Kansas City Star Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2, 1936 (article date) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource typed manuscript page Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0472 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/70d75885c98cfd6701d9c85bb9d71207.jpeg 5e00f8f7463df0418ae206f9dd1271bb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Transportation and Accidents History Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1913 Rossville Roads Graveled Description An account of the resource DECEMBER 1913 Rossville Main Street will be graveled, according to a decision by the city council. The portion to be graveled will start at the south end near the railroad and run- to the north end of the block and west on Pottawatomie to the city limits. With the three miles finished west of town, a continuous gravel road of about 22 miles will stretch west of Topeka. Hattie Kirby and Walter McCleary were married in Kansas City and went to Texas for a honeymoon. The 14th annual M.W.A. Grand Ball will be held at Fritz Hall New Year’s Eve. Music will be provided by Kramer’s five-piece or¬chestra. The county commis¬sioners are being urged by the Secretary of State to designate the county roads in Shawnee County. The last legislature provided a tax on automobiles and motorcycles, the revenue to be used in the improve¬ment of county roads. This money has been collected in Shawnee county but can¬not be used until the com¬missioners have de¬signated certain of the roads as county roads. This seems to be the day and age when every farmer has a chance to go to school. If he can’t go for four years, he can go for a year, and if he can’t go for a year, the Kansas State Agricultural College offers him a ten- week’s course, beginning January 6, 1914. The little auto that has been on exhibition for several weeks at Rossville Cash Store as a prize to the boy selling the greatest amount of cookies and crackers was won by Ho¬ward Bixby. Ralph Hartzell was second, Theo Marney third, and Willie Shipley fourth. The Reporter begins its' 15th year since the paper succeeded the “Times” or “Gimlet” as its old patrons called it. The editor has also purchased the Silver Lake Mirror and will publish both papers. The Mirror will continue to be published at Silver Lake with Frank Skinner looking after the mechanical end of the business. C. E. Cless has landed the agency for the Ford automobile in this ection [sic] of Shawnee County. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Shawnee County Recorder, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Originally published in December 1913 Featured as a "Way Back When" article on December 12, 1963 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Original text is public domain; reprint is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper clipping Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0482 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/fca52dc02eb3a74933083a8592b5dfd5.jpeg 7266115761ebd197e0da473f2e23cae3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Transportation and Accidents History Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Highway, 1923, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource July 19, 1923 L. E. Gomery, of Hays, Kansas representing the U. P. highway which passes thru Rossville over the same route as marked by both the Midland and Victory routes, was in the city Tuesday trying to get the local business men to give $100 as a donation to the U. P. highway association to be used in the expense of propaganda, map booklets, roadmarkers, etc. Mayor VanOrsdol got out a few business men to me§t Mr. Gomery in the afternoon in the directors’ room of the Rossville State Bank. No action was taken at this meeting. At the Council meeting Tuesday night, the matter was discussed again without action being taken. It is generally felt here that since Rossville is on three of the trails, any financial aid that is given by the people of the com¬munity should be divided up be¬tween the three and this prob¬ably is what will be done in the future. A representative of the Auto¬mobile Club, of Kansas City was here Monday trying to raise money for his organization, but according to Mr. Gomery, this Club has neither reason nor right in asking for funds, since all the maps and information the Club’s tourist bureau can use in direct¬ing tourists over the various trails is furnished by these highway as¬sociations, and the Club should be entirely neutral in giving in¬formation about the routes. Farther west the three highways use different routes and the com¬petition between towns on these routes is becoming very keen in bidding for the tourist traffic. The U. P. highway with white markers claims better night driv¬ing on its route in addition to a route 14 miles shorter than all others between Kansas City and Denyer.[sic] July 19, 1923 The latter part of August the U. P. highway association will have a speed car make the run from Kansas City to Denver un¬der conditions as the run made yesterday by the ‘‘Gray Goose” which made the run over the Vic¬tory highway , in an effort to low¬er the record set yesterday. Rossville is fortunate in being on all three trails and from a sel¬fish standpoint could sit back and refuse to dig up for any of them but such is not the attitude the business men want to take, be¬cause if the traffic is worth any¬thing to the town, the town in re¬turn should help bear the expense of trying to route tourists thru this part of the state instead of having them take the trails to the north or south of us. August 1, 1923 Mr. Hazelbaker, manager of the Midland Trail between St. Louis and Denver, will run a race against the time of the Rock Is¬land train between Kansas- City and Denver, Thursday August 10 He will use a Buick stock car and will endeavor to show that the trail is in such condition that a car can leave Kansas City and beat the Rock Island train into Denver. Practically all towns along the route have pledged Mr. Hazel baker their support in hav¬ing the road in readiness across their respective counties. City officials have promised to co¬operate to the extent of keeping the streets clear of cars until he passes through their city. Roads will be patrolled the entire dis¬tance. It is believed that this will be one of the best advertise- ments that the Midland Trail can possibly get. He will leave Kan¬sas City at 2a.m. on the morning of August 16, and expects to reach Denver at 9 p.m. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 19, 1923 August 1, 1923 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource copies of newspaper clippings Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0566 Union Pacific Railroad http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/950dafb53c0ffc9b2f678ae51cc92dda.jpeg 7b3f98eaf7f9096f60d3aecf5ab1a99d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Politicians & Elected Persons Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1971 Brothers of the Brush Proclamation, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource Almost five months prior to the Rossville Centennial celebration in 1971, Rossville Mayor Chris Viergever announced this proclamation: Brothers of the Brush WHEREAS, all MEN and being residents of Rossville are interested in doing their utmost to make our Centennial Celebration the greatest ever held in this part of the country, and WHEREAS, all of us are anxious to have the city look as it did 100 years ago, and to reflect the struggles and sacrifices of our forefathers, THEREFORE, I, CHRIS VIERGEVER, do hereby proclaim that all males of the age when shaving is feasible, refrain from shaving from now until the end of Our Glorious Celebration Week, July 25, 1971. These males shall include all who live or work in the confines of our City as well as a goodly portion of our rural area. They may wear a full beard, mutton chops, Van Dykes, goatees, sideburns, mustaches or any facial foliage they so desire. This hairy growth shall be of such length and luxuriance that it can be readily seen and recognized at eight paces. THESE WORTHY MEN shall henceforth be known as Brothers of the Brush and shall receive full and official recognition by Town and Centennial officials as citizens of the greatest honor. BE IT KNOWN ALSO that those males who refuse to join the loyal fun organization, the Brothers of the Brush, by failing to sport such Wiry or Silky Hirsute Appendages as herein prescribed and ordered, will be dealt with as in the days of our ancestors by a specially constituted police force known as Ye Keystone Kops. This secret order will report all those who fail to heed this proclamation with punishment dealt out by Ye Kangaroo Court, to be set up by the Centennial Committee. Such humiliation and punishment as seems proper by said court shall be established by ye Keystone Kops and their aides. ISSUED under My Hand and Centennial Seal on this day of March 3rd, the Festive Year of Our Celebration, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-one. Signed: Chris Viergever, Mayor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chris Viergever, City of Rossville Mayor Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 3, 1971 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public domain due to copyright expiration Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0281 Rossville Centennial http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/9966c36165d33d091417e897b216582a.jpg d6b42eeae95f47101f2b4e10adcc5d02 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Update, 1955, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>January 13, 1955<br /><br /> "Progress of the Grades"<br /> Rossville Grade School<br /><br /> FIRST GRADE<br /> We are happy to be back in school after our nice, long vacation. Most of us stayed home and had lots of fun playing with our toys Santa Claus left us.<br /><br /> All of us would like to express our thanks to Mrs. Wehner, Mrs. Parr, Mrs. Foresman and Mrs. Simecka for the lovely refreshments they served after our Christmas Program. We also appreciated the nice attendance at our program.<br /><br /> Visitors in our room since our last news are the following: Mrs. Lorraine Bailey, Mrs. Frank Dolezilek, Mrs. Francis Pardee, Mrs. Nadeau and Mr. Simpson. Please come again!<br /><br /> Alex Sieck and June Murray have returned their pink dental cards.<br /><br /> We are working hard on our letters, sounds and spelling words. We made little Snowmen Books to write our spelling lessons in.<br /><br /> Many of us are doing outside reading. Several of us received a set of Alice and Jerry pre-primers for Christmas. We can see much improvement in our reading.<br /><br /> Mrs. Ramey showed us three films this week which we enjoyed a lot. We plan to have films every Thursday.<br /><br /> Bobby Dolezilek came back to school proudly wearing a new pair of glasses.<br /><br /> Alex Sieck spent part of his vacation at his grandparents in Iowa.<br /><br /> Our room certainly looks nice. Mr. Dolezilek worked hard during vacation to have it nice and clean for us. We are trying to cooperate and keep it looking that way.<br /><br /> Mrs. Shortall, our school nurse, paid us a visit recently.<br /><br /> In Art, we have just completed our snowmen and Kansas sunflowers.<br /><br /> Rudy Bailey is nicely settled in his new home.<br /><br /> SECOND GRADE<br /> We were all glad to see each other after our Christmas vacation.<br /><br /> Some of us took trips during vacation. Virginia Stach went to California with her family. She told us many interesting things about her trip and brought back olives and fresh dates to treat us on her birthday.<br /><br /> Barton Larson went to Lyndon, Rebecca Zeller to Manhattan and Helen Wehner went to Sabetha. The rest of us stayed home and played with our Christmas gifts, which included bicycles, dolls, dogs, ponies, trucks and many other nice things.<br /><br /> Dwight Martinek treated us to popcorn balls a few days before Christmas. He also made the frame for our fireplace. Freda McCollough gave us our Christmas tree.<br /><br /> Gary Dick and Henry Wade treated us to candy on their birthdays.<br /><br /> Daryl Mitchell had his tonsils removed during vacation.<br /><br /> Artie Campbell ran a wire into his leg and had to have three stitches taken in it. Ronald Harmon stepped on a nail while playing at home.<br /><br /> We appreciate so many coming to see the program given by the Primary Grades before Christmas. Glad you liked it.<br /><br /> Parker and Laura VanVleck have moved to town. Parker isn't very happy about leaving the farm.<br /><br /> In Science we are watching for our winter birds and are remembering to put food and water out for them.<br /><br /> THIRD GRADE<br /> The boys and girls in the Third Grade came back to school with wonderful New Year's resolutions to work harder, help mother more, and be good boys and girls. All of them are working hard to keep their resolutions and very few of them have been broken.<br /><br /> In the present Spelling race Linda Simecka, Myrna Perry and Connie Zeller are in the lead with Douglas Kelsey, Joe Mitchell, Jimmy Fauerbach, Daniel Gee and Lillian Reser following very close.<br /><br /> We have had one birthday this month; Myrna Perry treated us with ice cream bars.<br /><br /> For Art the boys and girls in the Third Grade have decorated their room's windows with snowmen and snowflakes. Most of their pictures now will be about Kansas until after Kansas Day.<br /><br /> All but two of the students in the Third Grade have read more than the eight required library books and many of them have read more than twenty books.<br /><br /> Marilyn Simpson had her tonsils removed during Christmas vacation but she is feeling fine now although she must keep quite in her activities for awhile.<br /><br /> Since we have been studying good posture habits in health, we are starting a posture contest between two teams in the room. Through this contest we hope to eliminate all slouching and carelessness in posture.<br /><br /> FOURTH GRADE<br /> Our motto this week is, "No person is too big to be courteous, but many are too little."<br /><br /> The safety thought is Don't be a Jay, Play the safe way.<br /><br /> Last Tuesday the children each brought a Christmas game or toy and enjoyed sharing it with others during the rainy play periods. Carla Rasch came out the checkers champion.<br /><br /> We are learning the tables of sevens now in multiplication and division.<br /><br /> Those who made perfect scores in all the new lessons in regular spelling class are Anna Ent, Michael Gresser, Roger Hurley, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch, Virginia Rezac, Bobby Stach, Janice Vanderblomen and June Wehner.<br /><br /> In the supplementary Spelling Class perfect grades were made by Dale Dannefer, Sharon Irwin, Judy McCollough, Carla Rasch and Jean Stiles.<br /><br /> The Fourth Grade will have the assembly this month. We are planning it for Wednesday morning, January 26, at 9:15. We will welcome all of you parents who can come.</p> <p>___________</p> <p>Date: January 13, 1955</p> <p>Copyright Information: This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties.</p> <p>Credit Information: <em>The Rossville Reporter</em>, Rossville, Kansas</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 13, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0282 http://recollectionsks.org/files/original/c45db69d4e7ce9f5b823a920265938ee.jpg 565ea3a834d25e8c0deede230e7ef7e3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Schools Description An account of the resource From the 1971 Centennial book: The history of our earliest schools is limited, however, we do know that the first school was taught by Mrs. Gibson Metty in 1863, and the first term was held in a small log cabin near the creek on the west side. There were about 15 scholars in attendance, both white and Indian. It was a subscription school. Mrs. Metty was succeeded by Mrs. Guernsey and she in turn by Miss Jane Woodward. In the years 1865 to 1868, a number of citizens formed an association and established a private school which most of the children attended. They built a small one-story frame building on the corner of North Main and Marion Streets. The population by the year 1870 had increased sufficiently to allow the formation of District No. 34. A two-room frame building 14x23 was built near the corner of Navarre and Marion Streets with a daily attendance of about 14 and in the winter season about 20. This was the first public school in Rossville. In the spring of 1871 this school building was moved from its site and purchased by C.W. Higginbotham for use as part of his home (which stood near the S.M. Thompson residence). A large, two-story frame building was constructed on the same site as the former school. In the fall the building was completed, and school was taken up by a Mr. Grant with an attendance of about 30 pupils. In 1882, a meeting was held at the Rossville school to discuss the necessity for enlarging the school facilities. Many felt the existing school should have an addition added to secure more room, and a high fence built around the school yard. Others favored moving the two-story frame house off to a suburban site such as back of the Baptist Church on Mulvane’s farm or some similar location. The complaint of noise, and the children playing in the creek because of lack of adequate playground area were reasons given for moving the school. In the year 1884, it was decided that a new school should be built and the contract was let to William Binns. It was built of red brick and furnished inside with all the latest improvements of the time. There were four spacious rooms, two on the first floor and two on the upper, in the back of these rooms were wardrobes. In the front and center of the building, on the upper floor, was recitation room opening into either of the two rooms. This school house was located on the present Rossville Grade School grounds. Both grade and two years of high school were taught for several years in this school building, until a four year high school could be established. From the Topeka Daily Capital, December 22, 1940: “Rossville’s new District No. 34 Grade School was dedicated. It was built at a cost of approximately $42,000.00 and contains four classrooms, one combination classroom and library, an auditorium, kitchen, bathrooms and a boiler room.” From the Rossville paper June 15, 1952, “patrons of District No. 34 and consolidated districts voted 64 yes and 3 no on a proposal to issue $68,000 in bonds for enlarging the grade school building, now greatly overcrowded.” The new addition to the grade school was started September 1952. The last addition to the grade school was in 1963. From the Topeka Daily Capital, April 17, 1949: “Five rural school districts voted to consolidate with the Rossville District. They are Parr District No. 77, which closed April 1910; Cedar Bluff District No. 52, closed since April 1937; Lipp School which closed in 1938; and James and Twin Rose schools which closed in 1946.” In about the year 1910, it was voted by the citizens of Rossville to build a high school. Until the high school was completed, the students, because of overcrowding, attended classes in the old Fritz hall, which is now identified by location above the present Rossville Truck and Tractor building. During this time, part of the primary department was taught in the old Baptist church. The high school, which was named “The City School, “ was built just east of the existing grade school on Pottawatomie Street. Due to weather conditions, the school was not completed until the second semester started in January 1913. School continued to be held in this building until 1937 with an average enrollment of eighty. The Rossville Reporter published on March 12, 1936, that among the public works projects was Rossville’s proposed new high school building, with an outright gift of $38,000.00 towards its cost. In May petitions were circulated in the district, which were later presented to the Board of Education requesting an election to vote bonds for Rossville’s share of 55 percent towards the new building. On July 11th the district voted five to one to approve the issuance of $46,480.00 in bonds. The 4.5 acres of ground, located on the south side of Highway 24 was purchased from J.K. Conley at $500.00 per acre. On December 10th, 1936, the school board advertised for bids for the new school. In 1966, due to an act of the Legislature, Grade School District No. 34 and High School District No. 7 were unified with St. Marys, Delia and Emmett and became known as Kaw Valley Unified District No. 321. The Delia High School was closed and the students came to Rossville. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rossville Grade School Enrollment, 1956, Rossville, Kansas Description An account of the resource <p>From<em> The Rossville Reporter</em><br /> Thursday, May 5, 1955<br /> Nineteen Beginners Expected at R.G.S.<br /><br /> Nineteen boys and girls came for Pre-School Roundup last Friday. Their mothers completed an information sheet and were given a list of books needed for next fall. Those who were with the group are: Danny Avers, Linda Bush, Mary Ent, Bonnie Fauerbach, Laurel Gee, Evan Jones, Terry Lambret, Wayne Macha, Anthony Martin, Sharon Mayer, Christina McBurney, Diana Mitchell, Benjamin Mogus, David Richardson, Sharilyn Robeson, Linda Royal, Benjamin Stach, Rose Stadler, and Ronald Starkey.</p> <p> </p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rossville Community Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 5, 1955 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This work is copyrighted; the copyright holder has granted permission for this item to be used by the Rossville Community Library. This permission does not extend to third parties. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource newspaper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RCL0284